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To: Rambi who wrote (78877)	4/25/2000 1:47:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) of 108807

Writing in the NY Times, Laurence Tribe, a Harvard professor of law and liberal constitutional scholar, said: .... "under the Constitution, it is axiomatic that the executive branch has no unilateral authority to enter people's homes forcibly to remove innocent individuals without taking the time to seek a warrant or other order from a judge or magistrate" -- absent the probable cause a crime is being committed. As for the "search warrant" obtained by the INS, Tribe writes, ". . . no judge or neutral magistrate had issued the type of warrant or other authority needed for the executive branch to break into the home to seize the child." He explains that the search warrant is "not a warrant to seize the child" and that the government needed to have "secured a judicial order." Tribe concludes that Reno's decision was "worse than a political blunder," a decision that "strikes at the heart of constitutional government and shakes the safeguards of liberty." There are perfectly reasonable, non-partisan grounds to object to the actual events that transpired.........

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